What does tangent and cotangent give us?

Question

Like sine is used to get the y coordinate, cosine is used to give the x coordinate, what does tangent and cotangent give?

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Answer 1

One way to visualize tangent is if you draw a line centered at the origin with an angle A between the positive x axis and the line, the tangent of A is the slope of that line.